We have witnessed an important watershed in world history with the unwinding of QE2. Every citizen, no matter where, has a ready camera eye on the world, carried in his smart phone case. Even more so does the internet provide the anvil for major nations to forge economic strategies. “Swords are being hammered into cybershares.”

We think of wars being fought with soldiers on battlefields, now Cyberspace is the new field of combat. As we have seen with the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the use of the internet is becoming a vital instrument in fighting the wars of the future. Cyber-spying to formulate the economic policies of nation states are an increasingly critical factor. So it has never been thus that even friendly nations may spy on one another in order to formulate their investment timing.

An interesting development that underlies the growing importance of the internet in our daily lives is occurring under our very noses. Recently, an unnamed, nation state cracked into the confidential, super secret network of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is an integral component of the global financial system.

It is important to comprehend the significance of this developing story. Indebted nations are strategizing methods, in which they can pay off ever mounting debts with cheaper currency.

China, who is sitting on a hoard of devaluing dollars and bailing out a debt burdened Europe, must exchange them for real assets in the form of precious metals and natural resources in the ground. History presents us with watershed events which are difficult to perceive while we are in the midst of them. This has been no surprise to readers of Gold Stock Trades.